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fMRI of the Auditory Cortex

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During the last two decades, auditory neuroscience has made significant progress in understanding the functional organization of the auditory system in both normally hearing listeners and patients with sensorineural hearing impairments. Modern brain imaging techniques have made an enormous contribution to that progress by enabling the in vivo study of human central auditory function.

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    Scott H. Faro MD (Professor and Vice-Chairman of Radiology Director of Functional Brain Imaging Center Director of Radiology Research and Academics, and Clinical MRI) & Feroze B. Mohamed PhD (Associate Professor of Radiology Associate Director of Functional Brain Imaging Center) (Professor and Vice-Chairman of Radiology Director of Functional Brain Imaging Center Director of Radiology Research and Academics, and Clinical MRI) &  (Associate Professor of Radiology Associate Director of Functional Brain Imaging Center)

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Hall, D.A. (2006). fMRI of the Auditory Cortex. In: Faro, S.H., Mohamed, F.B. (eds) Functional MRI. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34665-1_14

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